White supremacist groups see Trump bump

EmeraldGhost wrote:

boards of FL wrote:

EmeraldGhost wrote:Trump's neither racist nor fascist ... he's just not as politically correct as you panty-waists think a politician (or anbyody for that matter) ought to be.   He thumbs his nose at your political-correctness and you can't stand it, can you?

So I have to ask:  The KKK - racist or politically incorrect?

I have to ask that because you're writing off overtly racist comments as simply being politically incorrect, so I wonder if you even believe that the concept of racism exists at all, or is everything simply "politically incorrect"?

Hey, 'Boards' ... what do you know about racism?  Are you an ethnic/racial minority? Or is it all theoretical with you?  Feel free to share ... since this is your thread and all.

Me ... I'm half Native American, half Caucasian (aka: white).  And I did grow up on a "Rez."   But I don't usually wear it on my sleeve & blame it for whatever problems/obstacles I may have encountered in my life.  It's part of what made me who I am .. for the better & the worse.  Good for me Mom & Dad pulled me out of the gubbmint"Indian"  (Federal Plantation) school & put me in public school (60/40 white/black) before I got to the middle grades.   Can I tell ya some stories?  Yeah.  Hell, everybody can tell ya a sad story.  Do I whine about it?  H*ll, no.   Life is tough in different ways for lots of folks ... of whatever race/ethnicity they may be.   Always has been.  Some people get a raw deal 'cause they're fat.  Some people get a raw deal because they're devout ... or not religious at all.  Some people have a big nose or thick glasses ... or they're Jewish in a non-Jewish community.  Some people get discriminated against simply for being from "The South," and having a Southern accent  ... it's assumed they must be stupid, inbred, uneducated, and racist simply because of their regional accent.   Racism isn't the only "unfairness" people encounter in life.    Ya get over it if and overcome if you're a mature self-actualized person.

I think there's a whole bunch of f'd up politically correct people in this country who do not truly understand MLK's admonistion to judge a person by the content of their character (or lack thereof) rather than the color of their skin.  

I'm not voting for Trump, because I don't think he'd make an effective President ... but you show me where Donald Trump has actually in real life treated a person unfairly due to their race/ethnicity, or advocated others do .. .then we'll talk.  Till then ....



Okay ... rant over.   This kinda crap just really sets me off on occasion.  Fortunately it's just once in a blue moon and I don't lose any sleep over it.

I think 2seaoat basically made the exact argument that I was going to make, so no need for me to add to that.

But just out of curiosity, what tribe?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/donald-trump-racism-increase-latinos

I've experienced a new level of racism since Donald Trump went after Latinos

Tina Vasquez

Donald Trump’s hate speech against Latinos seems to be emboldening white Americans’ racism. For many, it may be hard to wrap their minds around the fact that that a reality TV star and failed businessman who characterized Mexican immigrants as the “most unwanted people,” calling them “criminals, drug dealers,” and “rapists”, was not only running for president, but is now polling well.

I can’t say I’m surprised.

A couple of weeks ago, while I was running errands in my neighborhood, a stranger asked me if I was “illegal”. Around 10 minutes earlier another stranger asked me if I spoke English. Both were white and one of them even called me “senorita.” Then, late last week, I was standing in line to use the ATM when a white man approached me cautiously, asking if I spoke English. He was lost and said he didn’t want to be in a “bad area” longer than he needed to. He was holding a King Taco cup in his hand. I’ve seen white guys like him at the neighborhood taco spot. Stay for the tacos, leave before you have to interact with Mexicans who aren’t serving you.

This is the world Trump wants when he says he’s going to “make America great again.” It’s the America of 1950s TV shows, where people of color don’t exist in the lives of white Americans unless they’re being served or entertained by them. This appears to be a world longed for by many, as a recent poll found that 47% of white Americans look upon Trump “favorably.”

I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 29 of my 30 years. As a light-skinned, biracial Latina in one of the most diverse and Mexican-centric cities in the nation, I have never been asked the type of questions I’m now fielding from white people. I’m not the only one experiencing an uptick in seemingly out-of-the-blue racist exchanges. Latina journalist Aura Bogado recently tweeted about a strange interaction at a grocery store. My father recently told me a white neighbor he’s been friendly with since moving into the neighborhood 15 years ago, casually inquired about his citizenship status. As the days go on, I hear more of these kinds of stories from Latino friends and family members.

White Americans can argue Trump is the all-American underdog, the anti-PC, shoot-from-the-hip politician they’ve been waiting for; that their support stems from an appreciation for someone willing to stand up for everything that once made America “great.” Yes, Trump is unabashedly American – in the way that racism and xenophobia are as American as apple pie. His demonization, dehumanization and push to further criminalize undocumented immigrants while having utilized their labor to build Trump Tower is also painfully American.

We’re seeing headlines from both conservative and liberal news sources, seemingly confused by Trump’s popularity and polling numbers. “Why is Trump so popular?” “Why do people support Donald Trump?” “Trump can’t actually win, can he?” He can win, and it’s because he’s utilizing a very dangerous tactic: he’s preying on white Americans’ fear of “the other.” In this case, the “other” is Mexican immigrants, who are here to take Americans’ jobs, sell their children drugs, and rape the white women in their lives.

Strangely, Trump is the only presidential candidate willing to discuss race head-on, but he’s approaching the subject by doing nothing more than tapping into Americans’ fears of “the end of white America,” when ethnic and racial minorities will comprise a majority of the US population. While it’s true that demographics are shifting, focusing on immigration is a lazy tactic, even while immigration flows are falling to their lowest level in at least two decades.

When media fails to call Trump’s “rants” what they truly are – hate speech – we move toward normalizing his racism and xenophobia, which emboldens others to behave similarly. As long as Trump has a platform and a microphone, people of color will be put in harm’s way. That can take the form of the type of racist interactions I’m experiencing – or violence.

When white brothers, Scott and Steve Leader, beat and urinated on a 58-year-old homeless Mexican man last month, they cited Trump as the reason why they did it. “Trump was right” about “deporting all these illegals”, they said. Trump responded by saying he would never “condone violence.” But when will Trump take responsibility for breeding hatred? And when will society – and the media – call Trump exactly what he is: a racist?

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The well known racism of semi-retired President Obama most of which are in his own, racist, words.

Shocking Audio Obama has to Redistribute WHITE Suburbia’s Wealth for both His and Our Salvation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHxH5aUMQ0Q

Obama Says--White Folk's Greed Runs a World In Need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFNQBTOVF4o

OBAMA SAYS CONSTITUTION DEEP FLAW CONTINUES TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OhmY1obS4

Barack Obama's mentor Hillary ain’t never been called a ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM

GOD DAMN AMERICA Rev Jeremiah Wright, Farrakhan & Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo

Jeremiah Wright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36T1fnIafC0

Obama Appeals Court Nominee - Goodwin Liu - on Reparations for Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgR2I3mvz74

Eric Holder Drops Charges on Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation - Bill O'Reilly Reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoEpySrLYxs

Malik Shabazz Reacts to Barack Obama and Rev Wright!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT6CefhYEqo

VAN JONES RESIGNS Blames Smear Campaign Of True Facts & Tape Recordings Of His Own Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQ-aRlqiXw

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-latinos-punish-your-enemies-voting-booth_511932.html